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CRICKET FEVER Cricket has provided one of the most passionate pastimes I have indulged in -- Absolutely not, I do not as you must have assumed share your passion for playing cricket but for watching it. Yes, I am a poor performer at cricket though my love for playing the game is as enormous as my love for watching it on the big screen .Cool! But when did all this start! Let us listen to the full story! I handled the bat for the first time in 1987 when I was barely three, or rather, I must have, for memories concerning those days are vague and unclear. However, I could remember hitting the white mass of rubber with childish exuberance, along the cement ground, and picking off some quick runs by the time I was five. I have fonder (though unclear) memories of watching the last few games of Gavaskar, and Krishnamachari Srikkanth and Kapil Dev,in the twilight of their careers and a blossoming Azharuddin in his prime. These are on the television, however, for I had never ever been to a crick